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A PROCLAMATION

Constituting Hundreds in the Province of Otago.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the “Definition of Districts Act, 1858,” that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony into Counties, Hundreds, and Parishes, or such other divisions as he may deem expedient, which shall have such limits, and shall have and be known by such names or designations as in and by the Proclamation constituting the same shall be prescribed; and also in like manner from time to time to alter and annul any such division, or the name or designation thereof:

And whereas by a Proclamation made by the Governor, and issued under the Seal of the Colony on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the several Hundreds therein particularly mentioned and described were constituted in the Province of Otago, and it is expedient to alter the Boundaries of such Hundreds, and to establish additional Hundreds in the said Province:

Now, therefore, I Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid, in pursuance and in exercise of the before recited authority, do hereby annul the several divisions set forth in the said Proclamation, and do hereby proclaim and declare that there shall be within the Province of Otago the several Hundreds bounded by the limits and known by the names or designations hereunder written, that is to say:—

Waikouaiti Hundred.

Forty Square Miles.

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Waikouaiti River; on the East by the ocean; on the South by Dunedin Hundred; and an East and West line (true bearing) drawn from Double Hill to the South arm of the Waikouaiti River; and on the West by the North arm of the Waikouaiti River, and a straight line drawn from the elbow to that creek junction on the Shag River, near Trigonometrical Station Q.

Hawkesbury Hundred.

One hundred and eleven Square Miles.

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by Shag River; on the East and South by the ocean; and on the West by the Waianakarua and its Southern arm; on the East by the ocean; on the South by Hawkesbury Hundred; and on the West by the Shag River, and a straight line drawn from that creek junction (half a mile above Captain Fraser’s Station) over Trigonometrical Station M to the South arm of the Waianakarua.

Moeraki Hundred.

One Hundred and Three Square Miles.

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Waianakarua and its Southern arm; on the East by the ocean; on the South by Hawkesbury Hundred; and on the West by the Shag River, and a straight line drawn from that creek junction (half a mile above Captain Fraser’s Station) over Trigonometrical Station M to the South arm of the Waianakarua.

Otepopo Hundred.

Eighty-four Square Miles.

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Kauroo and Kakanui rivers; on the East by the ocean; on the South by Moeraki Hundred, and an arm of the South Waianakarua river, and on the West by a North and South line (true bearing) in line with the Kauroo Hill, drawn from that arm to the Kauroo river.

Oamaru Hundred.

One Hundred and Thirty-six Square Miles.

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Waitaki River; on the East by the ocean; on the South by Otepopo Hundred; and on the West by a straight line drawn from the junction of the Kauroo River to the Waireka and Big Hill Creek junction, thence by the Big Hill Creek to Big Hill, thence by a North North-east and by East line (true bearing) to the Waitaki River.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Fixing Sittings of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.

G. GREY,

Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland,

the 25th day of November, 1862.